Chorizo Quesadilla: Easy Camping Recipe Ready In Minutes (2024)

Looking for quick camping dinner recipes? Try this Chorizo Quesadilla! It is packed with flavor and will be on your table in less than 30 minutes!

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Cooking Methods & Equipment

If you love easy campfire recipes, this quesadilla is a great option. You can use a cast iron skillet or griddle for this meal.

This works well also if you prefer preparing camp stove recipes with non-stick skillets.

Recipe Steps

Step 1. Prepare your ingredients, heat source and equipment as directed. You’ll start cooking over medium-high heat then eventually reduce down to medium low heat.

Step 2. Brown the meat. You’ll begin by browning the sausage. Depending on the brand, the flavour in the meat comes from paprika, cumin and local chiles so the raw sausage already has a reddish-brown color to it. You can tell when the meat is browned by the crumbled texture more than the color.

Step 3. Complete the meat mixture. Add the potato cubes, onion and garlic to the meat. Cook covered until the potatoes are tender.

Step 4. Assemble the quesadilla. Make a “sandwich” out of the two tortillas by spreading the meat mixture between them.

Step 5. Toast & serve. Reduce the heat to medium low and toast both sides of the quesadilla. Serve with your favorite toppings.

• You may want to add our Fresh Guacamole or our homemade fresh Sweet Onion Salsa as toppings.

Pairings

I love this recipe when I’m preparing camping meals for two. It doesn’t really need anything on the side but if I want to bulk up the meal, I’ll heat up a can of refried beans.

If I’m serving this as one of my camping snacks as an appetizer to a main dish, I like staying in a similar flavor profile. Here are some great options:

• Our Dutch Oven Mexican Chicken features chicken and rice that is cooked in one pot. Check out all of our one pot camping meals.
• I like making chicken quesadillas, but, when I’m serving chorizo quesadillas as an appetizer I’d rather serve these Cast Iron Dutch Oven Chicken Enchiladas for the main course.
• This Campfire Roast Beef uses fire roasted canned tomatoes and diced green chiles to give a ton of flavor to chuck roast and potatoes.
• Try this Dutch Oven Latin Chicken if you like sweet potatoes, red bell pepper and black beans in your one-pot dinners. This is one of my favorite easy camping meals.

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Leftovers

If I have leftovers I just wrap them in aluminum foil and refrigerate them. Then, I just throw the whole packet over hot campfire coals to reheat the meat and re-crisp the tortillas.

Similar Recipes

Try these Camping Breakfast Quesadillas that uses chorizo as the flavorful meat.

If you want to serve eggs to everyone at the same time, a casserole is a great option. Try this Southwestern Camping Breakfast Casserole when you want a little extra kick in the morning.

These Camping Breakfast Burritos combine chorizo with scrambled eggs in a soft tortilla.

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